Horse chip inplants.

The government is considering legislation that would require mandatory electronic chip implants of all horses to keep track of diseases. (I also heard this on the radio and for the life of me I can't find an article on it.)


Doing a search for the research on this article I stumbled here.

Microchips are tiny implants that are usually put under the skin on the
horse's neck. There are several microchip manufacturers. Because of this, if a
horse is stolen that carries a microchip that was manufactured by Company A and
the particular slaughterhouse that they end up at has a scanner manufactured by
Company B, this horses microchip will not be read by that particular scanner.
Universal readers/scanners have been promised for a number of years, but until
such time that they are made available, far too many horses may never be
recovered because their chips weren't read. There is also the problem of
possible duplication of the identifying numbers on the chip depending on who has
inserted it. A few other problems are that microchips can be removed and
microchips can also be implanted by anyone with the money to buy the chip
set-up. This is a great for someone wishing to identify their own animals - but
a horse thief can also implant a microchip very easily as well. Microchips have
been known to migrate to other parts of the horse's body from where they were
originally implanted and we really don't know what the long term health effects
of microchips might be. The microchip is no deterrent to horse theft in my
opinion because there is no visible mark that the thief would see.

So they want to mandate something that would be almost useless. Score one for goverment bureaucracy!